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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: TAC on September 14, 2016, 10:56:34 AM
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Ok, so on this past Sunday, my wife and I were clearing out a room, and we have this big old TV that needed to be disposed of. As we've done before, my wife tell me to put a free sign on it at the end of out driveway. Great.
So as we were bringing it out, my neighbor across the street comes over. Mind you I have no issues with the guy. His family has been here as long as we have (19 years). Any way after some small talk he mentions that he has an old TV too. I do what I feel is the neighborly thing and tell him to bring it over and put it next to mine.
So when I get home from work early Monday afternoon, my TV is gone, and his is still there. Well, it's now Wednesday and his is still there at the end of MY driveway.
Last night, I was complaining to my wife as to the fact that is it was the opposite situation, I would not leave my TV in his yard if his was picked up. I just think it's rude. My wife told my that since I invited him to leave it there, that I should stop complaining.
Again, I have no issues with my neighbor, and this certainly isn't going to change that. But my wife and I have totally opposite views on this.
What say you, DTF?
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I'd probably be annoyed but I would just do the passive thing and probably take it to a recycling center.
I think I would've just avoided letting him put it on my property to begin with.
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Well, my motto is "Tend My Own Garden". If it was my TV sitting at the end of your driveway, I would have come over and talked to you about it a long time ago. Let you voice your opinion. But absent that, I kind of think that you have to wait a reasonable time and then the next time you see him ask, "what's the plan with that?".
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Well, it was a spur of the moment thing. He mentioned it so I thought it was very cool of me ;D to say, sure drop it next to mine.
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Give him a week. If it's still there do what Stadler said. Ask him his gameplan for it.
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Does your town's trash service make pickup requests? Maybe you can give them a call and just have them take it away. I could drop a washing machine at my curb, call the city, and it'll be gone within 48 hours at no expense to me (taxes).
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If after a week you get nowhere, you may have to shit in his yard before he starts to take this seriously.
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I probably would have let him leave his TV by his own driveway to begin with and then put up signs alleging his TV is haunted, just to make sure mine got take first :lol
On a serious note, I agree with king, a week seems right.
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I wouldn't make a big deal of it. But then again, I wouldn't have offered to let him put his next to mine. :lol
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I would let it sit there for a little while longer. With a free sign on it, I don't think it will take all that much longer for a junk scavenger to pick it up. Free Stuff that I have put at the end of my driveway never lasts very long.
Even though it is annoying, I try my best to keep things cool with people that I have to see everyday and live so close too.
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Something something shit something something cereal.
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Put a listing on craigslist under free shit. Failing that, next time you see him ask him to move it to in front of his house. I wouldn't make a big deal out of it, hence waiting until I happened to bump into him out in the yard or something.
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If after a week you get nowhere, you may have to shit in his yard before he starts to take this seriously.
I'm glad I live in a world where there is a Coz. :)
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Put a listing on craigslist under free shit. Failing that, next time you see him ask him to move it to in front of his house. I wouldn't make a big deal out of it, hence waiting until I happened to bump into him out in the yard or something.
No big deal at all. It was all more or less to settle the discussion between my wife and I. My plan is that if it there when I get home from work next Monday, I'm just going to put it in his yard. I think that's reasonable.
But if it were me, once I saw HIS TV gone, I would've already taken mine back out of HIS yard.
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Something something shit something something cereal.
(https://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj144/guitarcozmo/DT/cereal.png)
If after a week you get nowhere, you may have to shit in his yard before he starts to take this seriously.
I'm glad I live in a world where there is a Coz. :)
:) It seemed like a reasonable escalation of the situation.
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TAC, you're going to have to challenge him to a feat of strength. There's just no other way to settle this.
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If after a week you get nowhere, you may have to shit in his yard before he starts to take this seriously.
I'm glad I live in a world where there is a Coz. :)
Yep. just not in the same neighbourhood.
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I would give the week as well. But like someone mentioned, there should be a city pick up service to dispose of it
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I think you should find a wife who agrees with everything you say!
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For gas and tolls, I could be convinced to come shit in this guy's yard for you.
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For gas and tolls, I could be convinced to come shit in this guy's yard for you.
I just snarfed water all over my computer screen.
Sounds like the basis for a business plan!!!
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For gas and tolls, I could be convinced to come shit in this guy's yard for you.
I just snarfed water all over my computer screen.
Sounds like the basis for a business plan!!!
United Poo Service. What can brown do for you?
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I have the best visual right now of Coz squatting in your neighbor's yard :lol
Anyway, what Bill said.
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Dear Lord
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I just keep checking this thread to see if you've taken a dump in his yard yet.
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I won't but I'm getting to the point where I'll PM Coz directions to my town..
I still can't believe it's in my yard. Anyway, as I said, it'll be a week on Sunday, so Monday when I get home, I'll just bring it back over and dump (it) in his yard.
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So anyway, I came home from work today and my neighbor was out. My son and I carried the TV over and put it in the back of his driveway.
My wife was still all you should've said something before you brought it over. I was like WTF, I did the courteous thing by inviting him to put it next to mine in the first place. And I also carried it back over to his yard. It's been a week!!!
Coz, you're welcome to check out the DTF world map for my location!
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Honestly, the guy should've kept the TV on his own property. After all, it ended up there anyway. :lol
Regarding neighbor etiquette, my neighbors next door don't know the meaning of the word. They act like fucking hillbillies who don't know what neighbors are.
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I have a neighbor who also did something quite selfish as well. Our primary home sits on a huge spot of land. We have about 10 acres that are not wooded, and that we tend too. So as a result there is a great deal of landscaping that needs mulched (about 10,000 sqft). So we ordered each year about 100 yards or so. If you were buying bags of mulch it would be about 800 or so to give you a frame of reference. Anyway, two years ago, the company who dropped it off came early when we were not home, so they dumped it outside of our gate in a turn around area of our driveway. We have a fairly long drive, but you could see it from the street. Our landscaper came and used a front-end loader to move the mulch to the various parts of the yard where his crew needed it. The day they started on the project it began to storm, so they stopped for the day. It rained for a few days, and he couldn't come back out. By then he was onto other projects and couldn't get back out for another week. I was out and looked at the amount left over, and realized that instead of the 100 yards of mulch, the company delivered nearly 200 yards of mulch (which we paid for). When they had called, my wife had given them the wrong information. So I wasn't sure what I was going to do with the leftover mulch. I decided when the landscapers came back out that I was going to have them create some new beds around our lake. They came and finished the original job, but I still had nearly 100 yards leftover, so they scheduled to come out the next week to do the new beds for me. That job would take no more than probably 40 yards. My neighbor, whom I rarely speak with stopped over and asked me what I was going to do with all that leftover mulch. I told him what had happened, and he asked if he could have a little that was leftover. Now he didn't ask and offer to pay for it. Although he's a cardiologist, he didn't even offer. I told him he could have some of what was left. He assured me he was only needing some around a couple of trees near his driveway. I told him when the landscapers would be back to finish my job. We then went out of town, and when the landscaper came to do the work he called me and told me there was no mulch. Seemed my neighbor had rented a Bobcat and had used all my fucking mulch. What an asshole! I had told him he could have what was left over, and when the job was supposed to be done. When I confronted him his response was "My bad!" NO SHIT! He then had the balls to ask if he could pay for part of it. I don't need his money. It was never about the money. Then the asshole had the balls to ask me this year if I was going to have any leftover mulch. "Fuck no! I'm changing over to Pine Straw Mulch!" which I did.
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What a dickbag.
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I think I'd ask Coz to take a shit on the TV while it's in their driveway. That's like a coup de'grace.
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Coz, you're welcome to check out the DTF world map for my location!
If I remember right, you work near where Joker's used to be, right?
I think I'd ask Coz to take a shit on the TV while it's in their driveway. That's like a coup de'grace.
Nice touch. I'm down.
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Neighbors can really suck. I live on a one-way street where parking is only allowed on one side of the street. The guy three houses down has 4 cars in his household, a one-car-length driveway and a one-car garage full of sh*t. So, no cars can be parked inside. On any given night, he and his two kids park their cars on the street. Inevitably, every morning, there is a car parked directly in front of my driveway and my next-door neighbor's driveway causing us to either have to back into our driveways or do a 10-point turn to get out of our driveways in the morning. In the past 6 months, I've backed out and hit a car that has parked there (not one of my neighbor's cars) and the aunt of my next-door neighbor has backed out and hit his kid's car.
THEY STILL PARK THERE!!!
If I could get away with it, I'd by myself a beater (crappy car) and back out of my driveway at full-speed right into one of his cars. I'd do it every day until he decided he should walk an extra fifty feet and park his cars towards the end of the street. In all seriousness, I was approached by one of my town's councilmen about re-election the other day. He asked me if there was anything he could do. I explained what happens every day and he said he'd see if he could get the curbs for the spots directly across from my driveway and my next-door neighbor's driveway painted yellow to make it illegal to park there. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
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Then the asshole had the balls to ask me this year if I was going to have any leftover mulch.
THAT is unbelievable.
...parking story...
That blows.
I had another issue that also involved neighbors and parking. Next door over, we had some young people that lived there, and across the street is another family (they live next door to the neighbor in the OP).
When both of these households have people over they not only parked in front of my yard, but ON it. Now I don't mind if two tires are slightly on my grass, but ALL FOUR?? Fuck that!
So I went to Lowe's and bought some orange stakes and put them on that part of my yard. They got the message. My wife was mortified that I would do that. The people next to me were punks, but the folks across the street are educated, and not only that, the guy would shit if anyone did anything to his perfect lawn. Where's the fucking decency?
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We've only ever had one real issue with our neighbors behind us, but it was definitely a richard manuever on their part. Our backyard ends and then there's a steep hill down a few feet to where their driveway begins. We had a fence along the top of the hill, but the property lines say everything up to their driveway is ours. This included a row of trees that gave some shade to the backyard and, more importantly, gave us privacy in our backyard as it would otherwise be very easy for everyone driving up the street to look into our backyard (we live on the corner). Long story short, we came home one day and the neighbors had just gone and had them all cut down. Unfortunately not much we could do once the trees were gone.
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Damn, that sucks. People are the worst, right?
richard manuever
Nice one, I don't believe that I've heard that before. I might have to incorporate that into the few conversations that I actually have in English.
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That's messed up, Bill. I would've started a war at that point. I've had dick neighbors but never anything really crazy. Just loud obnoxious people, mostly...
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I haven't had any troubles with my neighbors. Then again, I have a Freemason and an Anonymous sticker on my car so they aren't quite sure what to make of me. I guess they keep a distance.
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I haven't had any troubles with my neighbors. Then again, I have a Freemason and an Anonymous sticker on my car so they aren't quite sure what to make of me. I guess they keep a distance.
Are you a Mason? If so, so am I?
Spes mea in Deo est. :metal
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My neighbor directly across the street from me is awful. He moved in 2 years ago and already he thinks he can do whatever he wants. He has two cars, one which he always leaves in front of other people's houses, he is obsessed with his lawn and has a sprinkler system that splashes all over the other neighbors driveway and car, to the point where they have yelled at each other over it.
EVERY single holiday, whether its 4th of july, veterans day, labor day, easter, columbus day. This turd burglar sets off like weapons grade firework and freaks out every single dog in the neighbor hood. So not only is world war 1 going on outside my window, but so is a pack of hounds barking like crazy.
His wife one time, while backing out of the driveway, ran into my passenger side headlight and shattered it. Neither of them said sorry, or offered to pay for it.
He's also a lawyer and he throws that in everybody's face, like he can get away with anything and he's untouchable.
Can't stand this guy.
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His wife one time, while backing out of the driveway, ran into my passenger side headlight and shattered it. Neither of them said sorry, or offered to pay for it.
Was making out a police report an option?
Are fireworks legal where you live? If not, I'd call the police for that as well.
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We've only ever had one real issue with our neighbors behind us, but it was definitely a richard manuever on their part. Our backyard ends and then there's a steep hill down a few feet to where their driveway begins. We had a fence along the top of the hill, but the property lines say everything up to their driveway is ours. This included a row of trees that gave some shade to the backyard and, more importantly, gave us privacy in our backyard as it would otherwise be very easy for everyone driving up the street to look into our backyard (we live on the corner). Long story short, we came home one day and the neighbors had just gone and had them all cut down. Unfortunately not much we could do once the trees were gone.
Time to plant a new row of trees one foot inside the property line. Fuck those pricks.
My neighbor directly across the street from me is awful. He moved in 2 years ago and already he thinks he can do whatever he wants. He has two cars, one which he always leaves in front of other people's houses, he is obsessed with his lawn and has a sprinkler system that splashes all over the other neighbors driveway and car, to the point where they have yelled at each other over it.
EVERY single holiday, whether its 4th of july, veterans day, labor day, easter, columbus day. This turd burglar sets off like weapons grade firework and freaks out every single dog in the neighbor hood. So not only is world war 1 going on outside my window, but so is a pack of hounds barking like crazy.
His wife one time, while backing out of the driveway, ran into my passenger side headlight and shattered it. Neither of them said sorry, or offered to pay for it.
He's also a lawyer and he throws that in everybody's face, like he can get away with anything and he's untouchable.
Can't stand this guy.
God, people are assholes. Sic the police on his ass. That's bullshit. I hope in the absence of them offering to pay, you confronted them about it. Or told your insurance company to contact them, or something.
Now I gotta drive to Philly and NJ to shit in peoples' yards. At least when I come to P87X' house, I'll be sure to wear a Phillies shirt as opposed to any other team, otherwise, I may end up dead before I even get to the guy's yard.
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Some years ago a friend of mine had a christian offspring sect as neighbours. They acted very holy and got on everybody's nerves and they generally met on saturdays for some of their masses and parked in everyone's driveways and on everyone's lawn. Talking to them didn't help, they failed to see the problem (they were probably too holy for everyday problems).
So my friend made it a custom to have garden parties on saturdays where we had a barbeque and played heavy metal (especially the ones with hidden or openly satanic messages like Black Sabbath, Ozzy, Slayer, Highway To Hell, you get the point) at a very loud volume. Half a year later the sect moved to another part of town.
Thinking back I somethimes feel that we acted a little bit childish, but it was fun and they deserved it. :biggrin:
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I somethimes feel that we acted a little bit childish
No you didn't, trust me. They got what they deserved. Our shithead neighbors had two young boys. EVERY TIME they were out playing, they would shriek like little four-year-old girls, nearly nonstop. Annoying as hell.
So while we were at the pool and they were shrieking, Steel Panther would get put on the stereo. The speakers would get turned in the direction of the neighbor's house and turned up loudly. F*ck them.